A wild elephant in Nepal killed a 35-year-old man who attempted to chase it away, Police said on Wednesday.

VICE President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, stated that the church in Nigeria holds the key to the unity and progress of the country, just as he bemoaned the failure of Christian leadership to take its rightful place.

After my four-year marriage ended bitterly, my friends insisted I went on an outing with them to cheer me up. While I was at a party, I got chatting to this nice looking man and we really hit it off. The next day, he rang and asked me out and a relationship began. Over the months, he spent more time at my place than I did at his as my flat is much cosier. It took a while for me to find I was struggling to make ends meet. I went to my bank to get a current statement and noticed that small amounts – N2,000 or N5,000 at a time – had been taken out of

The former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to former President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Reuben Abati yesterday,lamented that the process of recruiting leaders to position of power in Nigeria had been corrupted and bastardised by people who call themselves “godfathers.”

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA—-The Department of State Service, DSS, has finally produced detained former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd, before the Federal High Court in Abuja to testify in the ongoing trial of erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh. Trial Justice Okon Abang had on […]

With internet fraud on the rise, Nollywood screen diva, Maryam Charles, has revealed why some engage in the shameful act . Maryam said, laziness of the mind, body and spirit is the reason why many engage in fraud – She also asked them to try telling the truth for a change.

ONE of the confirmed truths that all contenders in the November 18, 2017 Anambra Governorship election must respect – whatever their political affiliations – is The Peter Obi Phenomenon. Love him, dislike him or pretend to be indifferent to him, no sane observer can honestly deny that Peter Obi set the real foundation for the multi-sectoral development of Anambra State. Under him, Anambra State became the pride of everybody from the state and among friends of Anambra.

Barely two days after President Muhammadu Buhari sacked the duo of Babachir Lawal and Ayodele Oke from their exalted national positions of Secretary to the Government of the Federation and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said yesterday it was set to prosecute them.

The Minister of Water Resources, Mr Suleiman Adamu, says that the Federal Government is considering legislation against open defecation in the country.

MANAGING Director of the Develop ment Bank of Nigeria (DBN), Mr. Tony Okpanachi, has said that his organization would systematically bring down interest rate on loans to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), in the country. Okpanachi who signed a N5 billion partnership agreement with three microfinance banks in Abuja to commence DBN lending operations, said that lessons had been learnt from defunct Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) and that as such DBN has been modeled to operate on a sustainable basis. His words, “We know that some of the DFIs in the past started well but they are no longer in the market. DBN is modeled to be operate on a long-term and on a sustainable basis.   For it to be sustainable you have to financially build yourself up. There is a difference between intervention funds that you bring in for a particular purpose to achieve certain things for a period of time and a long-term funding we are providing, which is for a longer term. The idea is for DBN, 50, 60 years down the line, like any other reputable international DFI to be available for funding.”